I lived in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain for the first 6 months of 2008. Oviedo is a small city of (220.000) in the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. Oviedo is the political, economical and cultural capital of Asturias although it is slightly smaller than neighboring Gijon. You may recognize the city from Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. There is a life size statue of Woody Allen in downtown Oviedo. Please excuse the poor quality of the photos, I think my camera costs about $50

A traditional Asturian festival in the square that the cathedral overlooks

In front of the museum of fine arts

It deserves four photos

The rest of the square with the cathedral

La Calle Mon, one of the oldest streets in the city. Also the center of the nightlife

La Calle Mon

La plaza del sol. Adjacent to la calle mon. One of the hot spots during the evening

A weekday night

Near la calle mon

Near the cathedral

Headed towards the commercial downtown

One of my favorite buildings

Another favorite

Por la noche

Across the street

Random buildings in the center

One of the first pictures I took in Oviedo, you can see the tallest building in the background. A 22 story condo tower

On to the downtown park, campo de san francisco

Peacocks run free in the park. They are very loud and annoying. When they run into the streets you will see good samaritan run after them to shoo them back into the park... priceless.

My favorite cafe, cafe titanic. It was across the street from school

School, la universidad de oviedo. It celebrated its 400th birthday while I was there

A sunny day

outside the mall. "Leave the sadness (the city center shopping district), enter the happiness (the mall)

My house! C/ de San Melchor García Sampedro 54-2˚ C. It took me a while to learn

kitchen

living room

There is a sizable movement to get the regional language, Asturianu, recognized my the national government. Its official within the Principality. Most city dwellers think its a barbarian farmer language.

The city is littered with statues. This one, La gorda (the fat lady) is a popular meeting spot downtown